Grim Consequence

If you act irresponsibly,
if you react abruptly,
if you repeat incessantly,
if you speak uncontrollably,
if you treat disrespectfully,
if you allow sentimentality
to enrage the land for ore,
wait for the grim consequence.
If you disrupt and atrocious
destroy what nature protects,
you’ll become nature’s regret.
If nature regrets, it’ll balance
you out of the equation, don’t
care about nature’s negation?
Self-deluded by a tingling of
invincibility, you’ll gobble
up deception to fatten your
self-righteous, self-demeaning
misdirections of what’s true
to sustain ignorance untied
from the pole of responsibility
for as long as nature allows.
You’re bound to soon discover,
nature’s tricks teach harder
than hollow lead-tin-yellow
ones that poison who we are.
Nature strives toward balance,
a self-perfection never touched,
always at the verge of being.
If nature brim spills, you won’t
be spared whatever with money
you desire to cover from her.
As corals suffocate, forgery
is welcomed home while nature
surmounts histrionic delusions.
If we don't untwist the lying,
havoc will inevitable attest
for the crimes nature protests
shouldn't be allowed to affect
the renewal of her completeness.

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This poem was written the 26th of January, 2017. Last edited the 27th of January, 2017.

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I am an engineer, a multilanguage learner, a runner, and an MPhil in Humanities graduate specialized in the philosophy of poetry. For me, poetry is an unfolding creative process, a way to play endlessly, not a finished state. For that reason, I revise and re-edit my work publicly until a poetic form (other than an exploratory) comes to being. My poetry is a thoughtful play that explores acoustic and visual patterns as well as poetic forms. I attempt to blend science and philosophy with poetry. I publish new poems every other day, follow for updates!

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